Carboy-package.



A. G. COX.

GARBOY PACKAGE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 12, 1909.

Patented Feb. 22, 1910.

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CARBOY-PACKAG-E.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 22, 1910.

Application filed. March 12, 1909. Serial No. 482,936.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT G. Cox, a citizen of the United States, residing at Alexandria, in the county of Madison and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Carboy-Packages, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a package for carrying large glass bottles, ordinarily called carboys, in such manner that they will be readily stacked within a car in such manner that they will not shift one upon another.

The accompanying drawings illustrate my invention.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved package; Fig. 2 a vertical section; Fig. 3 a plan; Fig. 4 a vertical sectional detail on line 4 4 of Fig. 5, and Fig. 5 a horizontal sectional detail 011 line 5 5 of Fig. 4.

In the drawings, 10 indicates a container of any desired form, preferably cylindrical, and conveniently made of sheet metal. Se-

' cured to the bottom of container 10 is a foot flange 11 provided at several points with circumferential slots 12 which lie below the bottom of container 10. Mounted within the container 10 are pads 13 of a shock absorbing material which I have found in practice to be conveniently a so-called rock cotton which is commercially produced by fibrating slag. The pads 13 fit snugly about the glass vessel or carboy 14. Closing the top of container 10 is a cover member 15 having an edge flange 16 which may be attached to the upper edge of container 11 by means of suitable bolts 17 Cover 15 is provided with a central neck portion 19 through which the neck of the bottle may project and this neck portion is preferably provided with threads adapted to receive the threaded portion 21 of a cap 22 provided with a pad 23 having a central socket 24 for the reception of the projected end of the bottle neck. Secured to the upper face of cover 15 are segmental channels 25 each of which is adapted to receive a portion of the foot flange 11 of a package stacked upon another package so that a lower series or tier of packages may be placed in a car and then a second series or tier of packages stacked upon the first by placing the foot flanges 11 of the upper series in the channels 25 of the lower series.

In most cases the mere interdigitating of the foot flanges of the upper series with the segmental channels of the lower series of packages will be sufficient to maintain the several packages in relative position but, in order to insure the maintenance of relative position, I provide each one of the segmental channels 25 with a catch 31 which is projected into the channel as clearly shown in Figs. 3, 4 and 5. This catch 31 may be carried at the free end of a spring 32 attached at its opposite end at 33 to the channel, the arrangement being such that, by pulling the free end of the spring outwardly and then displacing the same slightly laterally, the catch may be entirely withdrawn from the interior of the channel as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 4. By this arrangement I am able to load a car to its maximum capacity without danger of breakage. In addition to this the packing pads, being fibrous and therefore capable of retaining considerable quantities of liquid, accidental breakage of one of the carboys will not result in serious damage even though acids are contained in the carboys.

I claim as my invention:

1. A carboy package comprising a main containing casing, a carboy arranged in said container, and interengaging means carried by the upper and lower portions of the container whereby one container may be stacked upon two or more containers and interengaged therewith.

2. A shipping package comprising a main container having an open upper end, a carboy arranged within said container and having its neck projected beyond the open upper end, a cover for said open upper end having an opening through which the carboy neck projects, packing pads arranged within said container and cover and em bedding the carboy, a cover cap removably attached to the cover and inclosing the projected carboy neck, and two interengaging parts, one carried at the lower end of the container and the other upon the upper face of the cover thereof whereby one package may be stacked upon two or more other packages and interchange therewith to prevent displacement.

3. A shipping package comprising a main container having an open upper end, a carboy arranged within said container and hav ing its neck projected beyond the open upper end, a cover for said open upper end having an opening through which the carboy neck projects, packing pads arranged within said container and cover and embedding the carboy, a cover cap removably attached to the cover and inclosing the projected carboy neck, a foot flange carried by said container at its lower end and segmental channels carried by the upper face of the cover member,

whereby one package may be stacked uponboy, a cover cap removably attached to the cover and inclosing the projected carboy neck, a foot flange carried by said container at its lower end and provided with circumferential slots 12 and segmental channels carried'by the upper face of the cover member, and catch members carried by said channels and adapted to interengage with the slots 12 of the foot flanges, whereby one package may be stacked upon two or more packages with its foot flange Within the segmental channels of said two or more packages.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal at Indianapolis, Indiana, this 1st day of March, A. D. one thousand nine hundred and nine.

ALBERT G. COX. [Ls] Witnesses ARTHUR M. HOOD, THOMAS W. MGMEANS. 

